An Unusual Pair Of French 120-Bore Percussion Over-And-Under Rifled Single-Trigger Overcoat Pistols By H. Le Page, Arqu. Du Roi A Paris, No. 3659, Mid-19th CenturyWith octagonal barrels each rifled with ten grooves, signed in gold along the top flats and encrusted in gold with lines along the angles terminating in symmetrical ornament at the muzzles and breeches, gold bead fore-sights, tangs, back-action locks (one defective) and hammers decorated en suite, nipple-bolsters each with pierced platinum plug, highly figured fluted butts each with slightly flared and shaped pommel, cast and chased silver-gilt mounts comprising butt-caps and trigger-guards, the former each with fluted strapwork inhabited by a human mask and a pair of amphitere, and with an aperture for a steel ramrod with threaded worm, the head encrusted in gold with a flower-head, the latter each with a further amphitere entwined around a fruit tree and against finely punched grounds (2) 5.5 cm. barrels FootnotesPossibly intended to form part of a garniture For a related pair of pistols by the same maker and sold in these Rooms, see Antique Arms, Modern Firearms & Accessories, 19 July 2001, lot 233
An Unusual Pair Of French 120-Bore Percussion Over-And-Under Rifled Single-Trigger Overcoat Pistols By H. Le Page, Arqu. Du Roi A Paris, No. 3659, Mid-19th CenturyWith octagonal barrels each rifled with ten grooves, signed in gold along the top flats and encrusted in gold with lines along the angles terminating in symmetrical ornament at the muzzles and breeches, gold bead fore-sights, tangs, back-action locks (one defective) and hammers decorated en suite, nipple-bolsters each with pierced platinum plug, highly figured fluted butts each with slightly flared and shaped pommel, cast and chased silver-gilt mounts comprising butt-caps and trigger-guards, the former each with fluted strapwork inhabited by a human mask and a pair of amphitere, and with an aperture for a steel ramrod with threaded worm, the head encrusted in gold with a flower-head, the latter each with a further amphitere entwined around a fruit tree and against finely punched grounds (2) 5.5 cm. barrels FootnotesPossibly intended to form part of a garniture For a related pair of pistols by the same maker and sold in these Rooms, see Antique Arms, Modern Firearms & Accessories, 19 July 2001, lot 233
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